- Jim Jagielski
and administrator for jagubox, the primary repository for third-party A/UX software. [ [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-author/jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov.html Usenet FAQs By Author: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov] ]
Background
Jagielski graduated from the
Johns Hopkins University in 1983 with a BES in Electrical/Computer Engineering. He was hired byNASA 'sGoddard Space Flight Center immediately after graduation.In 1994, Jagielski founded jaguNET Access Services, a Web Host and
ISP . He has served as CTO forZend Technologies and currently serves as CTO for Covalent Technologies. [ [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-28174696_ITM Zend Technologies Extends U.S. Presence; Open-Source Advocate Jim Jagielski Joins PHP Technology Leader] , retrieved 18dec2007] In addition to speaking at various conferences and seminars (eg: [http://www.apachecon.com ApacheCon] , [http://www.forrester.com/events/eventdetail/0,9179,1479,00.html?sTab=agenda&trackid=G Forrester's IT Gigaworld] and [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2005/view/e_spkr/2263 O'Reilly Open Source Convention] ) and writing on numerous topics, in the past Jagielski was also the editor of the Apache section onSlashdot . [ [http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/10/198257 Slashdot Announces Apache and BSD Sections] ]Open Source
In addition to his involvement with the ASF, Jagielski has been involved with other open-source projects as well.
Apache Software Foundation
Jagielski is one of the founding members of The
Apache Software Foundation after having been an almost charter member of the original 8-member Apache Group. Jagielski has served as Director on the ASF's board since its incorporation in 1999. After having served 8 years as Executive Vice President and Secretary, Jagielski currently serves as Chairmain of the ASF [ [http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/ Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors] , Retrieved onDecember 23 ,2007 ] .Other foundation level responsibilities include serving as Chair for the ASF's Public Relations committee. Jagielski was the first Chair of the
Apache Incubator project, in which he is still involved with to this day. He was one of the original co-Mentors for the [http://geronimo.apache.org/ Geronimo] project, and he also Mentors the following Incubator podlings: mod_ftp, CXF and Cayenne.Uniquely though, Jagielski is still a very active developer on many ASF projects. After doing some development on the
NCSA HTTPd web server, he started with Apache in early-to-mid 1995, making him likely the longest active contributor within the ASF. A complete and current listing of Apache projects in which he is involved is available here: [http://people.apache.org/~jim/committers.html Apache Committers] .Open Source Software Initiative
In 2005 Jagielski was asked to serve on the Advisory Board of the [http://www.oss-institute.org/ Open Source Software Institute] . Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) is a non-profit (501 c 6) organization of corporate, government and academic representatives whose mission is to promote the development and implementation of open-source software solutions within U.S. federal, state and municipal government agencies and academic entities.
Other Open Software Projects
Jagielski has also contributed to
Sendmail , xntpd,BIND ,PHP ,Perl andFreeBSD , among other projects.External links
* [http://www.jimjag.com/ Personal Home page]
* [http://www.jimjag.com/imo/ Blog]
* [http://www.jaguNET.com/ jaguNET]
* [http://www.covalent.net/ Covalent]References
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